This is a first for the Listening Post series in that I have no real relationship with this band at all. I mean, sure I know the “hits” and they’ve been a part of the general tapestry of my musical life since I was a little boy but the “Toxic Twins” or the “American Rolling Stones” or whatever their nicknames have made little or no impact on me at all.
Let’s give the boys from beantown a roll, k?
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic – 1975 (Buy it)
I don’t know what was going on in 1975 but it was a pretty damned good year for Rock. Born to Run, A Night at the Opera, Blood on the Tracks….and Toys in the Attic.
Aersomith comes of age with this album. It’s a barnburner, it is. I could go track by track and tell you how good it is, but I don’t want to. The first time I heard it I loved it. That was today. The second time I heard it loved it even more.
Now I just appreciate the shit out it.
I think the album sort of peters out by the end but the journey to get there is a treat.
Grade A
A Side: Toys in the Attic, Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion
BlindSide: Big Ten Inch Record, Adam’s Apple
Downside: You See Me Crying.
